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...penniless German Princess who in 1893 married the future George V, then Duke of York, was not welcomed with open arms. British sentiment was affronted by the fact that she had previously been affianced to the Duke's elder brother, heir presumptive to Victoria's throne. Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, whose elegant dress earned him the nickname Prince Collar & Cuffs, died of flu six weeks after his betrothal. His place in the succession and at Princess Mary's side was taken by brother George. Even the London Times admitted that the substitution of bridegrooms "presented...
...Throne & Altar. Dibelius was born in Berlin, the son of a high government official in a Germany prosperous, pious and proud. It was 1880, just nine years after Count Otto von Bismarck had Wilhelm I crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck...
...churchman, in those days, had a life as secure as an imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...Ciampino Airport in her red Mercedes-Benz, accompanied by her triumphant mother, also wearing dark glasses. After tearful partings with friends, Narriman the child bride flew off to Switzerland with her mother and her pet poodle, Jou-Jou, but not her son, King Fuad II, heir to the throne. In Geneva she announced that she would return to Cairo, where she could file for divorce. (Moslem wives may shed husbands by petitioning the Sharia, the Moslem personal court, for divorce on one of four grounds: infidelity, mistreatment, desertion or impotence.) Naguib had issued her an ordinary passport after a cabled...
Still convalescing from his month-long siege of influenza, Pope Pius XII canceled his routine private and public audiences as the only celebration of his 77th birthday and the 14th anniversary of his election to the papal throne...